Annals of Industrial Engineering 2012: Industrial Engineering: overcoming the crisis

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Characterization of Types and Determinant Factors for Corporate Entrepreneurship: A Case Study Based Analysis....Pages 3-9
Activity Based Costing, Time-Driven Activity Based Costing and Lean Accounting: Differences Among Three Accounting Systems’ Approach to Manufacturing....Pages 11-17
Operational Characterisation of a Micro-SME Producing Farmhouse Cheese in the South of Venezuela....Pages 19-25
Analysis of the Operating Efficiency of Mobile Operators During the 2002–2008 Period....Pages 27-35
Challenges in Data-driven Hotel Infrastructure Assignment Decisions....Pages 37-44
Economic Analysis of the Renewable Energy Policies in the European Union....Pages 45-51
Analyzing the Chinese Development and Its Impacts on the Brazilian Economy....Pages 53-59
Rethinking the Social Contract: An Agent-Based Model Approach....Pages 61-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
The Importance of Strategic Alignment in Enterprise Collaboration....Pages 71-78
Infrastructure Assignment Reference Metamodel....Pages 79-86
Innovation Infrastructures Assessment Through Knowledge Management Models....Pages 87-95
Managing Systems and Innovation: An Empirical Study of Basque Firms....Pages 97-104
Knowledge Management Practices in SME: Case Study in Basque Country SME....Pages 105-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Internal and External Supply Chain Integration: Construct Definition and Validatiion....Pages 115-122
Characterizing Productive Processes with Lack of Homogeneity in the Product and Its Impact on the Master Planning and Order Promising....Pages 123-130
The Reduction of CO2 Emission into the Supply Network Design: A Review of Current Trends in Mathematical Models....Pages 131-138
Design of a Continuous Review Stock Policy....Pages 139-146
MILP Model for Designing the Intermodal Inland Terminals and Seaports Network: A Case Study....Pages 147-153
Modeling of Integrated Management System of Sugar Cane: Taking Advantage of Sugarcane Agriculture Residues....Pages 155-162
An Overnight Parcel Logistics Company’s Capillary Distribution Network Design by Regression Analysis....Pages 163-170
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Optimization of Recyclable Waste Collection Using Real-Time Information....Pages 171-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Managing Qualities, Tones and Gages of Ceramic Supply Chains Through Master Planning....Pages 181-189
Strategic Capacity Planning in KIOs: A Classification Scheme....Pages 191-198
Leagility in Enterprise Networks Configuration of Capital Goods Sector....Pages 199-207
Minimizing the Makespan on Parallel Batch Scheduling with Stochastic Times....Pages 209-216
A Makespan Minimization in an m-Stage Flow Shop Lot Streaming with Sequence Dependent Setup Times: MILP Model and Experimental Approach....Pages 217-224
A Modified Approach Based on Ranking Fuzzy Numbers for Fuzzy Integer Programming with Equality Constraints....Pages 225-233
Modeling and Solving a Variant of MMSP-W Problem with Production Mix Restrictions....Pages 235-243
Coordination Mechanism for MILP Models to Plan Operations Within an Advanced Planning and Scheduling System in a Motor Company: A Case Study....Pages 245-253
Lean-Six Sigma Approach put into Practice in an Empirical Study....Pages 255-262
Lean Toolbox for Seasonal Process Industries: A Nougat Fabrication Case Study....Pages 263-272
Systematic Improvement of IT Processes: Application of CMMI.DEV in Implementation of ERP....Pages 273-280
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Quality, Environment and Safety: From Individual Systems to Integration—A Portuguese Case Study....Pages 283-290
Evaluation of the Business Process Management Practices: An Application in the Company of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production....Pages 291-298
Safety Management Models in Manufacturing Companies....Pages 299-306
Strategic Packaging Logistics: A Case Study from a Supply Chain Perspective....Pages 307-314
Insights into Corporate Social Responsibility Measurement....Pages 315-322
Personnel Participation: A Review of Its Role in Corporate Social Responsibility Models and Standards....Pages 323-330
A Performance Measurement Framework for Monitoring Supply Chain Sustainability....Pages 331-338
Front Matter....Pages 337-337
A Methodology to Share Profits and Costs in Non-hierarchical Networks....Pages 341-349
Front Matter....Pages 337-337
Fill Rate in a Periodic Review Base Stock System Under Discrete Distributed Demand for the Backordering Case....Pages 351-358
A Proposed Collaborative Network Enterprise Model in the Fruit-and-Vegetable Sector Using Maturity Models....Pages 359-366
Incorporating Small-Scale Farmers into Sustainable Supply Chains: A Case Study....Pages 367-374